When someone takes shoes to a shop to be mended, he is given a ticket with a number on it. Then,  21 his shoes are ready, he goes back to the shop, gives the ticket to the shoemaker, gets his shoes and  22  for them.
One day Mrs. Smith gave her husband a  23 of her shoes which needed mending and asked him to  24 them to the shop. Mr. Smith did so, and put the  25 for them in his pocket.
He went back four days  26 to get the shoes,  27 when he went into the shop, he was not able to find his ticket  28 ,and the shoemaker did not want to give him the  29 until he got the ticket.
“How do I know that the shoes are  30 unless you give me the ticket?” he said. “If I give them to you now, somebody  31 may come into my shop with the ticket tomorrow, and then I shall not be able to give him the shoes.”
Mrs. Smith needed the shoes very much, so her husband  32 for a moment and then went out to his  33 , which was at the side of the road   34 the shop. He  35 the door, and whistled（耳语）to his wife’s small  36 , which was sitting on the back seat. Then he went back into the shop and  37 it, “Get the shoes!” The dog began to  38 around the shop, and soon it found Mrs. Smith’s shoes and brought them to Mr. Smith one after the  39 .
“That should prove（证明）that they are my wife’s.” Mr. Smith said.
The shoemaker  40  and then he gave the shoes to Mr. Smith.

A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous. Late in the afternoon she gathered the    36  to approach her employer. To her delight, the boss agreed to a    37 . The woman arrived home that evening to find a beautiful table   38  with their best dishes. Candles were softly burning. Her 39  had come home early and prepared a festive meal. She wondered if someone from the office had given him the information   40  , or··· did he just somehow know that she would not get the request  41 ?

She found him in the kitchen and    42     him the good news. They happily sat down to enjoy the wonderful    43    . Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered card which was her husband's 44  of writing. It read “Congratulations, darling! I knew you'd get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you.”  45  The supper, her husband went into the kitchen to   46 . She noticed that a second 47    had fallen from his pocket.   48  it up off the floor, she read, “Don't worry about not getting the raise! But you   49    it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you.”

Someone has said that the   50  of love is when you love without measure. What this man feels for his wife is total    51  and love, whether she succeeds or  52 . His love celebrates her victories and 53  her wounds. He stands with her, no matter what life throw in their direction..

Upon receiving the Nobel for 54 , Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to  55  to the world peace? Go home and love your family.” And love your friends. Love then without measure.

1.                A．strength        B．courage        C．curiosity  D．power

2.                A．remove        B．cut            C．raise D．leave

3.                A．decorated      B．designed        C．filled D．set

4.                A．mother         B．father          C．husband  D．boss

5.                A．secretly        B．intentionally     C．accidentally   D．publicly

6.                A．turned over     B．turned down     C．turned out D．turned on

7.                A．told           B．said            C．spoke    D．added

8.                A．conversation    B．night           C．news D．meal

9.                A．color          B．design          C．style D．detail

10.               A．After          B．During         C．Before    D．with

11.               A．bring up        B．clean up        C．cut up D．throw up

12.               A．letter          B．book           C．card  D．bill

13.               A．Picking         B．Turning         C．Getting    D．Standing

14.               A．reserve        B．preserve       C．deserve   D．conserve

15.               A．quality         B．measure        C．quantity   D．depth

16.               A．tolerance       B．expectation     C．decoration D．acceptance

17.               A．fails           B．suffers         C．neglects   D．regrets

18.               A．relieves        B．heals          C．cures D．covers

19.               A．Literature       B．Physics         C．Peace D．Chemistry

20.               A．occur          B．lead           C．attach D．contribute

III. 完形填空（共20小题；每小1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从33—52各题所给的四个选项 (A，B，C和D)，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his  33  time, he likes to get out in the country and take some  34  of animals.

For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his father on one of his  35 . But his father didn’t take Bill along with him  36  he was fifteen.

He and Bill drove to the farm which  37  to his uncle in the afternoon. They  38  the night there, so that they could  39  out early the next morning. Uncle Steve and his son Larry, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Bill heard the alarm  40  the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember  41  he was. He turned over  42 and looked at the clock. It was 5 o’clock. Then he 43  that he was at the  44  and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got  45  quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the  46 . Uncle Steve was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It  47  good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk  48 , because they didn’t want to  49  up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle  50  hot coffee and took some sandwiches  51  Aunt Grace, Uncle Steve’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera  52  and started out.

33. A. busy      B. spare          C. enough       D. limited

34. A. foods            B. drawings       C. paintings      D. pictures

35. A. trips             B. buses          C. holidays       D. mountains

36. A. after             B. when          C. until          D. unless

37. A. led              B. stuck          C. got           D. belonged

38. A. cost       B. spent          C. slept           D. took

39. A. start             B. begin          C. walk          D. step

40. A. telephone  B. machine       C. bell          D. clock

41. A. where     B. how          C. who          D. what

42. A. quickly    B. sleepily        C. quietly              D. suddenly

43. A. imagined         B. pronounced    C. forgot        D. remembered

44. A. mountain   B. town          C. farm         D. station

45. A. dressed      B. ordered        C. eaten          D. prepared

46. A. bathroom  B. kitchen        C. dining-room    D. sitting-room

47. A. seemed     B. felt           C. tasted          D. smelled

48. A. many      B. soundly       C. much               D. highly

49. A. wake      B. go            C. put           D. come

50. A. of         B. with          C. in            D. by

51. A. that       B. what          C. after          D. before

52. A. cover      B. supply        C. operator       D. equipment

You need to be of a certain age to understand why so many people in Hollywood are caring about the possible closing down of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (米高梅电影公司)．For the past 40 years, its output has been good, but now it is on the ropes, with debts of $ 3.7 billion and will have to sell off its most valuable assets.
In its golden time, MGM stood for something．If Warner Brothers meant social dramas and gangster movies, and Disney meant cartoon films, then MGM was healthy fantasy．This business model found its most glorious expression in its musicals of the post-war era．It also featured such many famous stars as Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland.
But MGM had always put its hopes on the quality of stars it could attract．From the time MGM became a company in 1924, the studio and his associate proved themselves good at creating big names.
For 35 years, this worked well enough, but the growing power of television disturbed Hollywood．MGM continued to throw money into making gorgeous-looking musicals, but despite some big successes audiences gradually started to drift away．Throughout the sixties, MGM's decline set in．Things went from bad to worse．In 1973, MGM stopped distributing its own films．Since then, the Lion's roar has been reduced to a whimper (呜咽).
How far MGM has fallen can be shown by its recent releases．This was a studio that for years offered a reliable supply of first-class films．Yet last year its total output was three．To make it worse, all were co-produced with other studios．And this year? Only one so far, and maybe the last.
What now? MGM will probably be sold, though recent buyers have been cautious about a price thought to be around $ 2 billion.
【小题1】MGM is becoming the focus in Hollywood because it _______．